Yoshimoto Imagawa

Yoshimoto Imagawa (1519-1560) was a daimyo and the head of the Imagawa Clan. From 1545 to 1560, he fought a series of campaigns against the Oda Clan, but was killed after a series of victories at the Battle of Okehazama by Katsuie Shibata.

Biography
Yoshimoto Imagawa was born in 1519 in Suruga Province of Japan, and was in control of a very powerful clan by the time he was its head in 1545. Imagawa was one of the three warlords in Kanto Province, a participant in the Kanto Wars. In 1545, he aided the Takeda Clan and the Uesugi Clan against the Hojo Clan, led by Ujiyasu Hojo. Yoshimoto was the victor of the Sagami-Suruga Conflict of 1558 where the Imagawa and Takeda repelled an invasion by the Hojo and the Uesugi. Alliances shifted during the war, with Yoshimoto fighting alongside his brother-in-law Shingen Takeda sometimes, but also crossed blades with him frequently. In the end of the conflict, no clans had made any progress.

Imagawa also fought against the Oda clan in the 1540s, fighting against Nobuhide Oda